Quotes About Glastonbury

#1. Topshop is one of my favourite shops, and I love shoes by Giuseppe Zanotti. There's a graduate fashion designer called Kate Falcus who makes me beautiful commissioned pieces - one of my favourites was the white Glastonbury dress she made me with the puffy skirt.

Laura Mvula

#2. The energy that comes when you compel people to dance stays with you your whole career - whether you are playing to 100,000 people at Glastonbury or 1,000 kids in a club.

Steven Van Zandt

#3. In silvergreen rainy April they went down to Glastonbury on the long straight roads ...

John Crowley

#4. The other night I discovered that 50 feet from our house,through a break in the trees, you can see St Michael's Tor at Glastonbury ... There is no question that there is magic here and all kinds of magic. (Bruton 1959)

John Steinbeck

#5. In the days when Glastonbury was an alternative festival, it was quite interesting. Now it is the most bourgeois thing on the planet ... we'll leave the middle classes to do Glastonbury and the rest of the great unwashed will decamp to Knebworth and drink a lot of beer and have fun.

Bruce Dickinson

#6. And so, perhaps, the truth winds somewhere between the road to Glastonbury, Isle of the Priests, and the road to Avalon, lost forever in the mists of the Summer Sea.

Marion Zimmer Bradley

#7. You can't rely on the fact that people know you. At Glastonbury, when they all knew I was DJing, everyone was cheering even though they'd never heard some of the tracks I was playing before.

Aphex Twin

#8. I've never liked what's meant to be cool. I was asked to do Glastonbury the year before last actually, but I couldn't make it. I would have liked to, but I'm not really a festival man.

Tony Blackburn

#9. I snapped my lips shut againt the yes that was about to come out. Could I hit Reth? Could I please, please just ht him?

Kiersten White

#10. How did you learn to cock so well?" I sputtered, "I mean cook!"
She rolled her eyes and shook her head. I gave her a grin and a wink. "You do both so well, baby, my cock and the cooking part.
-Ethan

Raine Miller

#11. Fear is a huge thing for older people.

James Hillman

#12. The Analytical Engine weaves algebraic patterns, just as the Jacquard loom weaves flowers and leaves.

Ada King Lovelace

#13. Next to victory, there is nothing so sweet as defeat, if only the right adversary overcomes you.

Henry Ward Beecher

#14. Fucking family. Feeble and forlorn and floundering and foolish and frustrating and functional and sad, sad. Fucking family. Fiend or foe.

Rick Moody

#15. Plus if there were really mermaids, I hoped they didn't look like Ariel.

Lydia Millet

#16. Be grateful for what he could give you, and forgive him for what he couldn't.

Elizabeth Isaacs

#17. You got to realise that when I was 20 years old, I had a house, a Mercedes, a Corvette and a million dollars in the bank before I could buy alcohol legally.

Dr. Dre

#18. It's easy to demonstrate how progressive and open-minded and loyal you are when it costs you nothing.

Tim Kreider

#19. Boq sat down, and shook his head, as if bewildered by the apparition of Elphaba.

Gregory Maguire

#20. I think all television has to be about relationships and I don't think horror for the sake of it can work unless you're able to ground it in some kind of relationship.

Rachael Taylor

#21. I enjoy what I do. I think it shows.

Billy Mays

#22. We are a people captivated by the power and romance of metaphor, forever seeking the invisible through the image of the visible.

Lewis H. Lapham